We no longer have to worry about Robin Thicke gaming Boyz II Men’s throne, but “Blurred Lines” continues to glide along, like an oily snake making its way down a sleeping woman’s body, as a once-in-a-career megahit. It’s also caused more than its share of controversy, with lyrics that can only be described as “sort of rape-y.”

That’s why a student union at Edinburgh University in Scotland has banned Emily Ratajkowski, er, the song.

Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” song has been banned from being played in any of the student union buildings at the University of Edinburgh. The ban falls in line with an Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) policy, entitled End Rape Culture and Lad Banter on Campus, to tackle “myths and stereotypes around sexual violence.” An extract from the policy argues that lad culture promoters, such as lad mag websites, “trivialize rape” and “cannot be allowed by our union.”

EUSA vice president Kirsty Haigh said: “The decision to ban Blurred Lines from our venues has been taken as it promotes an unhealthy attitude towards sex and consent.

“There is a zero tolerance towards sexual harassment, a policy to end lad culture on campus and a safe space policy – all of which this song violates.” (Via)

Our douchebags are their ladbags, and never the twain shall meet. For fear of Axe Body Smog.

I really wish people would look at the lyrics before shouting crap about rape. He’s “gonna take a good girl” from another man that tried to “domesticate” her and control her. Robin is just gonna take a good girl from a domineering asshole and then they’ll smoke weed and have consensual sex.

Yeah, every time some one mentions “blurred lines of consent” I kind of head scratch. The way I hear it the “blurred lines” are actually morality. The girl is going to cheat on her SO with Robin Thicke, and he’s (mildly) perturbed by this fact… but probably not enough to stop himself from being “the other man.”

I vote that we’ve finally hit the point where we need to start using the word “cockophobic.” I firmly believe that if you think you’re more likely to get raped because a Robin Thicke song plays on your neighbourhood jukebox you are at least as a irrationally fearful as the person who thinks Tinky Winky is going to make more children have gay sex.

Forget I said anything. This Scottish University is clearly just trolling me specifically. From wikipedia’s entry on “Lad culture”:

Lad culture now reaches beyond men’s magazines to movies such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and to the TV sitcoms, Men Behaving Badly and Game On.[8][9] The Men Behaving Badly and Fantasy Football League television programmes present images of Laddishness that are dominated by the male pastimes of drinking, watching football, and sex.

To be clear, I like Snatch, Lock Stock, drinking, watching football and sex. The British (and from now on I’m referring to Edinburgh as a British University) are probably referring to soccer but that’s their divey version of football. I’m now expecting these cheeky citizens of the Queen to issue an edict denouncing hockey and Toews.